Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Cycling Football Gymnastics (Artistic) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Judo Sailing Table Tennis Tennis Figure skating Floor Hockey Snow Boarding Snow Shoeing Short track Speed Skating
Special Olympics Brazil athletes had the opportunity to share with students from the FAEFI School and to participate in inclusive and unified activities that joined people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team.
National sports directors and Young Athletes program coordinators from Special Olympics Latin America’s programs gathered in Brazil to define the actions on the sport level that they will execute during 2016 and beyond.
Earlier this month, representatives from Special Olympics and Special Olympics Brazil met with Senator Romario de Souza Faria of Brazil to discuss the importance of the upcoming World Summer Games in Los Angeles, hoping to gain Senator Romario’s support of the delegation from Brazil.
São Paulo’s Claudio Aleoni Arruda has 29 years of very significant achievements. He was the first person with Down syndrome to join the Riding School of Equestrian Society of Sao Paulo.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Cycling Football Gymnastics (Artistic) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Judo Sailing Table Tennis Tennis Figure skating Floor Hockey Snow Boarding Snow Shoeing Short track Speed Skating